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Actor Michael Rapaport reacted to a video of President Joe Biden struggling to stay awake at the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, Scotland, this week, by calling the president "sleepy f**king Joe" and demanding someone "wake this f**king guy up!"

So teen climate activist greta thunberg definitely had a busy week. she marched at the un climate conference at glasgow on friday. joining other fridays for the future activist, she praised the group for being the true climate leaders. plus, she had this message for world leaders. >> it is not a secret that cop26 is a failure. it should be obvious that we cannot solve the crisis with the same methods that goes into it in the first place. the cop has been turning into a pr event where leaders are...

This is bbc news. the headlines... around 100 people have died after a massive explosion when a fuel tanker collided with a lorry in sierra leones capital, freetown. fuel spilled before igniting and the resulting inferno engulfed bystanders and vehicles at a busyjunction. the vice—president has called it a "national disaster". police investigating a deadly crash at a music festival in the us state of texas say theyre looking into reports that someone in the crowd was injecting others with drug...

How are the british as the kind of chair of this event handling this? do you get a sense as you talk to officials off the record that they have a strategy for engaging china on this issue? its a great question and its very sensitive and very difficult. because however you look at it, relations between the uk and china are not exactly brilliant. you can pick from a long list of topics that cause tension. hong kong, for example. chinas treatment of the uighurs. the fact that the royal navy has jus...

Around a hundred people have died after a massive explosion when a fuel tanker collided with a lorry in sierra leones capital, freetown. fuel spilled before igniting and the resulting fire engulfed crowds of people and vehicles at a busyjunction. the vice—president has called it a national disaster. police investigating a deadly crush at a music festival in the us state of texas say theyre looking into reports that someone in the crowd was injecting others with drugs. eight people died in the ...

'We need to shine a light on climate justice, and we need to make food and farming sexy,' says British actor Idris Elba

Because she was pregnant, because the heart of the foetus was still beating. the polish government denies the law is to blame and says an investigation is under way into the two doctors involved but these protesters claim there are similar cases happening right across the country and they say there will be many more unless the ban is scrapped. courtney bembridge, bbc news. marches have been taking place in more than 200 cities around the world as part of whats been described as the global day of...

AS young people take to the stre­ets in Glasgow to mark Youth Day at the COP26 climate summit, youth in Singapore are also making their demands for climate action heard.

THE country questioned the terms of a deal to end deforestation by 2030 signed by over 100 countries, including the South-East Asian archipelago, which is home to the world’s third-biggest rainforest.

From J. TOH of Petaling Jaya.